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Through the Night

Continuous broadcast of concert music and opera, recorded from locations throughout Europe

Through the Night; Through the Night

Through the Night: Through the Night

15/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Through the Night

Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with music by Rosenmuller, Carniolus, Svendsen, Villa-Lobos, Schumann, Puccini, Paderewski, Kuula, Grieg, Mozart and Moniuszko.

With Jonathan Swain.

5.00am
Rosenmuller, Johann (c.1619-1684): Sinfonia Quinta
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists

5.10am
Carniolus, Iacobus Gallus (1550-1591): Two motets
Ljubljanski Madrigalisti

5.17am
Svendsen, Johann (1840-1911): Festival Polonaise, Op 12
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Philippe Jordan (conductor)

5.27am
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959): Bachianas Brasileiras No 9 for string orchestra
Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra
Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)

5.36am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Fantasiestucke, Op 73
Claudio Bohorquez (cello)
Marcus Groh (piano)

5.47am
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)	: Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

5.53am
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941): Nocturne in B flat, Op 16 No 4
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)

5.58am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): Suru, Op 22 No 2
Arto Noras (cello)
Tapani Valsta (piano)

6.06am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Holberg Suite, Op 40
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Terje Tonnesen (conductor)

6.24am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sonata in B flat, K333
Farkas Gabor (piano)

6.43am
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872): String Quartet No 1 in D minor
Camerata Quartet.

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Breakfast

Radio 3's breakfast show, waking the UK up with the finest classical music in the best performances

Breakfast: 15/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 15/02/2008

Including music by Rameau, Paganini, Dowland, Brahms, Beethoven and JC Bach.

Including Rameau: Dardanus Suite (excerpts). Paganini: Introduction and Variations on Dal tuo stellato soglio (Rossini's Mose in Egitto). Dowland: Pavan lachrimae antiquae.

Including from 7.00am

Rameau: Dardanus Suite (excerpts)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Bruggen (director)

Paganini: Introduction and Variations on Dal tuo stellato soglio (Rossini's Mose in Egitto)
Vadim Repin (violin)
Alexander Markovich (piano)

Dowland: Pavan lachrimae antiquae
Fretwork

From 8.30am

Brahms: Waltzes, Op 3: Nos 1, 2 ,5, 6, 10, 14 and 15
Dinu Lipatti, Nadia Boulanger (pianos)

Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Andras Schiff (piano)

JC Bach: Piano Concerto in D, Op 13 No 2
Hanover Band
Anthony Halstead (piano/director).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Rameau Suite: Dardanus (excerpts) Orchestra of the 18th Century, director Frans Bruggen
Paqanini Introduction and Variations on Dal Tuo Stellato Soglio
Vadim Repin (violin), Alexander Markovich (piano)
Dowland Pavan Lachrimae Antiquae Fretwork
8.30-10.00: Brahms Waltzes, Op 3 Nos 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 14,15 Dinu Lipatti and Nadio Boulanger (pianos)
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte
Peter Schreier (tenor), Andras Schiff (piano)
JC Bach Piano Concerto in D, Op 13 No 2 Anthony Halstead, Hanover Band, director Anthony Halstead

Classical Collection

Programme presenting a sequence of great music in classic recordings

Classical Collection: 15/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, 15/02/2008

Sarah Walker introduces music by Svendsen, Shostakovich, Bruckner and Bach.

Including Svendsen: 2 Icelandic Melodies. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 2. Bruckner: Helgoland. Bach: Aria with 30 Variations (Goldberg).

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Svendsen: 2 Icelandic Melodies
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 9028

10.15am
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 2, Op 126
Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Maxim Shostakovich (conductor)
PHILIPS 412 526-2

10.52am
Bruckner: Helgoland
Chicago Symphony Choir and Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
DG 437 250-2

11.06am
Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Glenn Gould (piano)
SONY CLASSICAL SMK 64 126.

With Sarah Walker. 
Svendsen Two Icelandic Melodies Iceland SO, conductor Petri Sakari 
10.15 Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 2, Op 126 Heinrich Schiff , Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Maxim Shostakovich 
10.52 Bruckner Helgoland 
Chicago Symphony Choir and Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim 
11.06 Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV988 Glenn Gould (piano)

Composer of the Week

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Howells

Composer of the Week: Herbert Howells: Episode 5

Episode 5

Herbert Howells

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Herbert Howells, Episode 5

Donald Macleod explores the tortuous gestation of Howells's Hymnus Paradisi.

Herbert Howells (1892-1983): 5/5. Final Responses: Donald Macleod explores the gestation of Howells's Hymnus Paradisi and we also hear the composer's thoughts on its inspiration.

Herbert Howells (1892–1983)

5/5. Final Responses

Despite lying unheard and unseen for over a decade, Hymnus Paradisi came to define Howells's achievements as an artist. Donald Macleod explores the tortuous gestation of the work and we also hear the composer's own thoughts on the inspiration behind it.

King David
Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

Hymnus Paradisi
Joan Rodgers (soprano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor).

Composer of the Week: Herbert Howells

Donald Macleod maps Howells's compositional roots

Donald Macleod maps Howells's compositional roots, from an unprivileged Gloucestershire upbringing right back to the music of the Tudors

5/5. Final Responses. Despite lying unheard and unseen for more than a decade, Hymnus Paradisi came to define Howells's achievements as an artist. Donald Macleod explores the work's tortuous gestation, and the composer is also heard giving his thoughts. Howells 
King David Sarah Walker (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (piano) Hymnus Paradisi 
Joan Rodgers (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Conductor Richard HickOX Repeated at 8.45pm

Afternoon Concert

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3

Afternoon Concert: 15/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, 15/02/2008

The Lunchtime Concert features the Aronowitz Ensemble performing Faure and Schoenberg.

1.00pm Lunchtime Concert: City of London Festival 2007. The Aronowitz Ensemble play Faure and Schoenberg. 2.00 Focus on Berlin: Concluding a celebration of music-making in Berlin.

Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2007

Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Aronowitz Ensemble perform signature chamber works by Faure and Schoenberg in this, the second of their two performances at the 2007 City of London Festival, given at St Giles Cripplegate.

Faure: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 15 No 1
Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht
Aronowitz Ensemble

2.00pm Focus on Berlin

Concluding a celebration of the best of music-making in Berlin, with performances by the Berlin Philharmonic and chamber music highlights from orchestra members past and present.

Bach, orch. Webern: Ricercare a sei, BWV 1079 (Musical Offering)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

Berg: Violin Concerto (To the Memory of an Angel)
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Stephen Hough (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

Rameau: Suite from Hippolyte et Aricie
German Symphony Orchestra
Emanuelle Haim (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D (in four movements)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor).

Introduced by Penny Gore . 
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 
Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Aronowitz 
Ensemble perform chamber works by Faure and Schoenberg in the second of their two performances at the 2007 City of London festival, recorded at St Giles Cripplegate. 
Faure Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 15 No 1 Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht 
2.00 Focus on Berlin 
Bach, orch Webern Ricercare a sei, BWV1079 
(Musical Offering) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink 
Berg Violin Concerto Frank Peter Zimmermann , Berlin PO, conductor Bernard Haitink 
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Stephen Hough , Berlin PO, conductor Simon Rattle 
Rameau Suite: Hippolyte et Aricie German Symphony Orchestra. conductor Emanuelle HaTm Mahler Symphony No 1 
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Mariss Jansons

In Tune

Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians. If it's happening in the world of music, you'll hear it first on In Tune.

In Tune: 15/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 15/02/2008

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music, and news from the arts world.

Performance on 3

Performance on 3 has been replaced by Radio 3 Live in Concert.

Performance on 3: 15/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, 15/02/2008

The Northern Sinfonia under Robin Ticciati perform Schubert, Shostakovich and Britten.

Robin Ticciati conducts the Northern Sinfonia. Schubert: Overture (Rosamunde). Britten: Cello Symphony. Schubert: Adagio (Symphony No 10). Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony.

Catherine Bott introduces a concert given at the Sage in Gateshead, with British conductor Robin Ticciati and the Northern Sinfonia performing works by Schubert, Shostakovich and one by Britten, specially written for the Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.

Schubert: Overture (Rosamunde)
Britten: Cello Symphony
Schubert: Adagio (Symphony No 10)
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony

Guy Johnston (cello)
Northern Sinfonia
Robin Ticciati (conductor).

Presented by Catherine Bott. British conductor Robin Ticciati teams up with the Northern Sinfonia for a concert recorded at the Sage Gateshead in which two Schubert fragments are interleaved with powerful 20th-century works. 
 Guy Johnston (cello), Northern Sinfonia, conductor Robin Ticciati 
Schubert Overture: Rosamunde Britten Cello Symphony 
Schubert Adagio (Symphony No 10) Shostakovich Chamber Symphony

The Verb

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance

The Verb: 15/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, 15/02/2008

The programme comes from the 2007 Hay Festival and includes poet and writer Wole Soyinka.

Another chance to hear an edition of the programme from last year's Hay Festival where Ian McMillan talked to poet, writer and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka.

Another chance to hear an edition of the programme from last year's Hay Festival where Ian McMillan talked to poet, writer and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Ian McMillan talks to poet, writer and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and there's surprising and unpredictable performance from Ken Campbell and the School of Night poets.

Another chance to hear a programme from last year's Hay Festival. Ian McMillan talks to poet and writer Wole Soyinka. Plus surprising and unpredictable performance from Ken Campbell and the School Of Night poets. Producer Zahid Warley

Jazz Library

Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings

Programme offering advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings or adding to an existing one

Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.

Jazz Library: King Oliver

King Oliver

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, King Oliver

With highlights of the recording career of New Orleans cornettist Joe 'King' Oliver.

Alyn Shipton and pianist Keith Nichols choose highlights of the recording career of Joe 'King' Oliver, the feted New Orleans cornettist of the early days of jazz.

Joe "King" Oliver was the most celebrated cornettist to come out of New Orleans in the early days of jazz. In this programme, bandleader and pianist Keith Nichols joins Alyn Shipton to select the highlights of Oliver's recording career, which spanned 1923 to 1931. His first discs featured the young Louis Armstrong and he went on to be a pioneer of big bands, as well as a specialist in muted blues playing.

For Laurie Wright's 1987 biography of King Oliver, Keith Nichols - who teaches jazz at the Royal Academy of music - analysed every one of Oliver's many recordings, attempting to identify exactly who was playing what - especially on the records from the early days of acoustic recording when few notes were taken at the time, and the musicians themselves quickly forgot what sessions they had played on. So part of this programme is detective work, identifying King Oliver's playing in a variety of contexts. The rest is an exhilarating tour through early jazz: from raunchy blues vocals to close harmony singing; Louis Armstrong's first solos on disc; and Oliver's talking trumpet, an effect he perfected with his mastery of mutes, before his decline into rural obscurity and an early grave in 1938.

Jazz Library King Oliver

Joe "King" Oliver was arguably the most celebrated cornet player to come out of New 
Orleans in the early days of jazz. Bandleader and pianist Keith Nichols joins Alyn Shipton to select the highlights of Oliver's recording career, which spanned 1923 to 1931. His first discs featured the young Louis Armstrong , and he went on to be a pioneer of big bands. Producer Alyn Shipton

Jazz on 3

Celebrating the best contemporary jazz, with exclusive concert recordings and features

From free jazz to fusion, post-bop to electronica – Jazz on 3 celebrates the music as a living and developing art form, with exclusive concert recordings and in-depth features

Jazz on 3: 15/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz on 3, 15/02/2008

Jez Nelson presents two gigs from the 2007 Vision Festival in New York.

Jez Nelson presents gigs from the 2007 Vision Festival in New York, featuring guitarist Marc Ribot's band Spiritial Unity and pianist Viyar Iyer's improvisational trio Fieldwork.

Jez Nelson presents a double-bill of gigs from the 2007 Vision Festival in New York.

Guitarist Marc Ribot's group Spiritial Unity reimagines the music of saxophonist and free music pioneer Albert Ayler with a quartet featuring former Ayler bassist Henry Grimes, recently out of retirement.

Pianist Viyar Iyer's trio Fieldwork includes saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Tyshawn Sorey in a style that combines a tight but complex rhythmic concept with explorative modal improvisation.

Jez Nelson presents a double bill from last year's Vision Festival in New York. Guitarist Marc Ribot 's group Spiritual Unity re-imagines the music of saxophonist and free music pioneer Albert Ayler with a quartet featuring former Ayler bassist Henry Grimes , trumpeter Roy Campbell and drummer Chad Taylor. Pianist Viyar Iyer 's trio Fieldwork unites him with saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. Producer Robert Abel

Through the Night: 16/02/2008

16/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 16/02/2008

With Jonathan Swain. Including music by Glinka, Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin and Britten.

Including 1.00 Glinka. 4.24 Brahms, Beethoven, Schumann. 5.22 Bennett, Chopin, Mozart, Britten, Haydn.

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857): Ivan Susanin (Acts I and 2)
2.18am
Glinka: Ivan Susanin (Act 3)
3.20am
Glinka: Ivan Susanin (Act 4 and Epilogue)
Nicola Ghiuselev (bass)
Elena Stoyanova (soprano)
Hristina Angelakova (mezzo-soprano)
Rumen Doikov, Angel Petkov (tenors)
Nikolai Stoilov, Dimiter Stanchev (basses)
Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir
Mihail Milkov (conductor)
Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ivan Marinov (conductor)

4.24am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897), arr. Squarcia: 3 Hungarian Dances
I Cameristi Italiani

4.33am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 6 Variations in F, Op 34
Theo Bruins (piano)

4.47am
Parsons, Robert (c.1530-1570): Ave Maria for 5 voices
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

4.52am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Arabeske in C for piano, Op 18
Seung-Hee Kim (piano).

With Jonathan Swain. Including 1.00 Glinka Ivan Susanin (complete opera) performed by Soloists, Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ivan Marinov 
4.33 Beethoven Six Variations in F, Op 34 
4.52 Schumann Arabeske in C for piano, Op 18 
5.22 Richard Rodney Bennett Aubade for orchestra 
5.53 Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466 
6.47 Haydn Symphony No 27 in G 
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